COVID-19 >>"True and Helpful" Covid Information Thread

[Anonymous]

You fucking people.



I FEEL YA BRICKTOP!!!!

You post from a BF perspective.....you don't care if information is accurate or not.....which is why you don't check your sources as long as you're in agreement with what they say..



That's fine, except we don't feel like searching through spam to look for useful tidbits of information in regards to what is happening..



This is affecting all of us and I want to know what is happening, especially in Canada since I'm returning next week...what quarantine measures will we be subject to, if any.....this is just one example..



I believe Bricktop comments were about what this thread has become rather than what it was meant to be when cc started it and I agree with him.

[Blazor]

You fucking people.



I FEEL YA BRICKTOP!!!!

You post from a BF perspective.....you don't care if information is accurate or not.....which is why you don't check your sources as long as you're in agreement with what they say..



That's fine, except we don't feel like searching through spam to look for useful tidbits of information in regards to what is happening..



This is affecting all of us and I want to know what is happening, especially in Canada since I'm returning next week...what quarantine measures will we be subject to, if any.....this is just one example..



I believe Bricktop comments were about what this thread has become rather than what it was meant to be when cc started it and I agree with him.

So now you are judging me?



You are getting almost as wrong as your friend the number lady.



Same could be said for y'all, you dont care if something is hinting at something true, if it goes against the media narrative.



Thats fine for you too, as I dont feel like reading the bullshit.



I dont blame you on wanting to know what is going on at home as far as lockdowns and such.



This thread became what it did when folks started calling others "stupid, idiot, retarded, etc". Not my fault, not one bit.

[cc]

....Same could be said for y'all,

mmmm K

I dont feel like reading the bullshit

mmmm K

Not my fault, not one bit.

mmmm K

[Anonymous]

You fucking people.



I FEEL YA BRICKTOP!!!!

You post from a BF perspective.....you don't care if information is accurate or not.....which is why you don't check your sources as long as you're in agreement with what they say..



That's fine, except we don't feel like searching through spam to look for useful tidbits of information in regards to what is happening..



This is affecting all of us and I want to know what is happening, especially in Canada since I'm returning next week...what quarantine measures will we be subject to, if any.....this is just one example..



I believe Bricktop comments were about what this thread has become rather than what it was meant to be when cc started it and I agree with him.

So now you are judging me?



You are getting almost as wrong as your friend the number lady.



Same could be said for y'all, you dont care if something is hinting at something true, if it goes against the media narrative.



Thats fine for you too, as I dont feel like reading the bullshit.



I dont blame you on wanting to know what is going on at home as far as lockdowns and such.



This thread became what it did when folks started calling others "stupid, idiot, retarded, etc". Not my fault, not one bit.

We don't feel like reading spam, and that is all you have posted in regards to this pandemic..



I don't like wasting my time debunking all of it because you don't check your sources so long as you agree with them..



Just yesterday, you fell for that meme about Betty White that even the source admitted was fake..



No adult is interested in that....take it to Rejected or post in your own threads.

[Frood]

Blazor doesn't spam.



He's posted stuff you're emotionally invested in discounting.

[Anonymous]

Blazor doesn't spam.



He's posted stuff you're emotionally invested in discounting.

He posted a meme yesterday that even the source achnowledged was fake. That is just one example.

[Bricktop]

If this factional "they said, we said" bullshit does not cease, I am out of here.



I've had enough.

[Frood]

If this factional "they said, we said" bullshit does not cease, I am out of here.



I've had enough.

I wouldn't blame you..

[cc]

If this factional "they said, we said" bullshit does not cease, I am out of here.



I've had enough.

You do know that this guy came here only to try to force people to leave, right?



You also know that Dink spotted it and climbed on board, right?



And of course you especially would not let that happen to you, right?

[Frood]

If this factional "they said, we said" bullshit does not cease, I am out of here.



I've had enough.

You do know that this guy came here only to try to force people to leave, right?



You also know that Dink spotted it and climbed on board, right?



And of course you especially would not let that happen to you, right?

Incorrect.



Just drop it.

[Anonymous]

The Netherlands is now past it's third week of one of the strictest lockdowns in Europe..



They recorded a record high 24,490 cases yesterday..



Australia reported 64,453 cases yesterday..



Lockdowns, restrictions and possibly masking may not be working at all with the Omicron variant..



Or, the rate of transmission could be even higher without it.

[Anonymous]

We have lost control in Manitoba. We have no idea how high the actual case count is. We officially had 1790 cases yesterday, but our real count is likely 16,000 to 17,000 according to our deputy chief public health officer.

Manitoba's actual daily COVID-19 numbers likely 8-10 times higher than reported figures: Dr. Atwal



Manitoba reported 1,790 new COVID-19 cases Wednesday but the true number is likely far higher — as much eight to 10 times that, says Deputy Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Jazz Awtal.



"With this Omicron variant, likely for every case we identified, we're missing out maybe eight, maybe 10 cases."



So the number of daily cases could actually be 16,000 to 17,000, Atwal said, underscoring that is an estimate "based on how infectious this [variant] is."



That means daily case counts are no longer the most accurate reflection of the virus's impact in the province because many cases are never reported.



There is also a backlog of 6,800 unprocessed PCR tests from provincial test sites, due to soaring demand.



To ease that backlog, some test sites are giving people rapid tests to take home instead of taking samples for a PCR.



Rapid test results are not entered into the provincial database. Instead, people are told to stay home and isolate.



Hospitalization and intensive care unit numbers are now a much better reflection the pandemic's effect on the population and impact on the health-care system, Atwal said.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/covid19-update-pandemic-vaccines-manitoba-atwal-reimer-1.6304655">https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba ... -1.6304655">https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/covid19-update-pandemic-vaccines-manitoba-atwal-reimer-1.6304655

[Anonymous]

We are keeping our case counts low compared to other provinces. Hospitalizations have gone up quite a bit. Not danger level yet, but we got to keep our eye on it.

[Anonymous]

Information is still coming in at a trickle back in Canada..



But, it does seem different than previous variants which gives us some hope..



As more information and data comes in from Canada, I'll post it and I'm sure cc will too.





'It's making people really sick in a different way': How Omicron affects hospital patients

'It can be a milder virus, but it can also be quite severe,' and the only real differentiators are vaccination status, immune status and age



Some Canadian emergency rooms are being walloped by "ridiculous" numbers of people with suspected or confirmed COVID, with symptoms ranging from what essentially resembles a mild cold to, in the unvaccinated and vulnerable, severe COVID pneumonias, frontline doctors are reporting.



Some are arriving in hospital with minimal symptoms, driven there instead by anxiety or a desire to confirm their COVID status, and with having had no clearly communicated advice on what to do if they do get COVID.



"We are still catastrophizing COVID," said Dr. Martha Fulford, an infectious diseases specialist and chief of medicine at the McMaster University Medical Center. "We have somehow made when you have a positive result equal disaster in a lot of people's minds."



Omicron is propagating rapidly, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Wednesday. In Ontario, the contagious variant has led to "explosive growth in hospitalizations," though not ICU admissions, a spokeswoman for the province's health minister said in an emailed statement Tuesday. The province has directed its hospitals to call-off non-emergency surgeries and brace for a potential "tsunami" of infections in the coming days and weeks.



But doctors stress this isn't March 2020, when people arrived in hospital extremely sick with gastro symptoms like vomiting or diarrhea, or dangerously short of breath. In New York City, where doctors and healthcare workers served as trailblazers in the first wave of SARS-CoV-2 and where hospitalizations surpassed 10,000 this week for the first time in 20 months , "we aren't seeing as many patients gasping for air," Dr. Craig Spencer, a NYC emergency doctor tweeted this week. "Thankfully the COVID patients aren't as sick. BUT there are SO many of them."



Unlike March 2020, when there were no vaccines, "We're not seeing a lot of admissions for respiratory failure, we're not seeing a lot of patients being put on high-flow oxygen, being intubated" and ventilated, or put on BiPAP machines that deliver oxygen under pressure through a mask, said Dr. Eric Legome, who runs two Mount Sinai Health System emergency sites in New York City. "What we are seeing is people who are being admitted because they are extremely weak, dizzy, a fall risk." Severe lung inflammation was a major issue in wave one, with people suffering respiratory distress and respiratory failure. "That's not so much an issue this time," Legome said. "We're not seeing a huge number of COVID pneumonia and people requiring intensive respiratory support. We're not seeing that very much at all."





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The unvaccinated make up a disproportionate share of the sickest COVID patients, Spencer said. Like earlier waves, some people are short of breath and require supplemental oxygen. "But for most, COVID seemed to topple a delicate balance of an underlying illness,"  he said — diabetics in whom a COVID infection triggered ketoacidosis, a potentially fatal complication.



"It's making people really sick in a different way," Spencer said.



Emerging research suggests Omicron infects and lodges in the bronchi, and less so deep in the lungs, like Delta does, which could explain why it's spreading so quickly but causing less severe disease.



"Of all the patients we have with Omicron, the vast, vast majority are going home," Legome said. Of those hospitalized, "It tends to be the patients who would be admitted otherwise: You're 90 years old, you have underlying pulmonary disease, heart failure, you have a hip replacement, you don't get along well at baseline and then you have Omicron on top of that and you just can't get out of bed. It's that type that we're seeing more of," he said.

https://nationalpost.com/health/we-arent-seeing-as-many-patients-gasping-for-air-how-omicron-is-affecting-hospital-patients">https://nationalpost.com/health/we-aren ... l-patients">https://nationalpost.com/health/we-arent-seeing-as-many-patients-gasping-for-air-how-omicron-is-affecting-hospital-patients

[Anonymous]

It seems Canadians really want to move on from the coronavirus.



Canadian attitudes about COVID-19 dramatically shifted between the spring and late fall of last year, internal federal government polling shows, and shifted again with the rise of Omicron late in 2021.



Not only that, the issues of greatest concern to Canadians had also shifted significantly just as the Trudeau government was beginning its third term in November with topics like the environment, cost of living and affordable housing rising to the top of mind of many voters and displacing the virus as the top issue in the country.



Canadian attitudes about COVID-19 dramatically shifted between the spring and late fall of last year, internal federal government polling shows, and shifted again with the rise of Omicron late in 2021.



Not only that, the issues of greatest concern to Canadians had also shifted significantly just as the Trudeau government was beginning its third term in November with topics like the environment, cost of living and affordable housing rising to the top of mind of many voters and displacing the virus as the top issue in the country.

https://globalnews.ca/news/8490966/analysis-internal-government-polls-covid-19-attitudes/">https://globalnews.ca/news/8490966/anal ... attitudes/">https://globalnews.ca/news/8490966/analysis-internal-government-polls-covid-19-attitudes/